Arkansas license plate: Antique
Issued today 2007 to today. Historic plates for car and truck, issued by Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA), Office of Motor Vehicle. One of 6 Arkansas license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L9999, for exampleR3137(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2007 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car and truck.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- ARKANSAS ANTIQUE. The genuinely valuable thing here is not the format but the DFA catalogue's own two-entry treatment: the department publishes "Antique Vehicle License Plate - Current" and "Antique Vehicle License Plate - Valid - No Longer Issued" as separate catalogue items.
- Who can have one
- text: DFA's own catalogue entry, verbatim: "For historical or special interest vehicles or any vehicle that is THIRTY (30) YEARS OLD OR OLDER, which is essentially unaltered from the original manufacturers specifications." DFA adds that "Certain modifications are permitted if they are characteristic of the approximate era to which the vehicle belongs or considered to be safety related (brakes, seal beam headlights, seat belts, etc.).". threshold kind: rolling. threshold note: A ROLLING thirty-year threshold, eligibility moves every year, which puts Arkansas with Florida's Antique plate (rolling 30 years, § 320.086(2)(a)) and against Florida's Horseless Carriage plate (fixed model year 1945 or earlier). Texas's § 504.501 Classic is rolling 25. Three of the four southcentral states therefore use rolling age thresholds and only the fixed-cutoff kind is absent here. The distinction is operationally real: a rolling threshold silently re-qualifies vehicles every 1 January and must be re-audited; a fixed cutoff never changes.. plate category: DFA classifies it under the catalogue's 'Special Interest' plate category. basis: authority-stated
Legal basis and sources
- DFA's own catalogue entry for the CURRENT antique vehicle plate: the rolling 30-year eligibility rule, the essentially-unaltered condition, the era-characteristic and safety-modification allowances, the Affidavit for... https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/specialty-plates/antique-vehicle-license-plate-current/
- DFA's own catalogue entry titled 'Antique Vehicle License Plate - Valid - No Longer Issued', the authority itself distinguishing a VALID but DISCONTINUED series, which is direct support for the ended-but-displayed... https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/specialty-plates/antique-vehicle-license-plate-valid-no-longer-issued/
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arkansas
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ar-antique. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Arkansas's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ar \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ar-antique")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ar/us-ar-antique.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ar/us-ar-antique/template.svg
